Scotties Bowl – Topo

Andrew — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:24 +0000

Scotties is a classic little Wasatch one-hitter. It is in danger of being over-run by Snowbird as it borders the resort, but if you time it right, it can serve up a nice powder run.

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Looking up at the lower 2/3rds of Scotties from the White Pine trailhead.

Scotties, from the top, with feeling.

Scotties mid section... with even more feeling. Nice view.

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Pink Pine Ski Tour – Topo & Guide

Andrew — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:35:28 +0000

At a recent seminar, a speaker from “Backpacker Magazine” described his reader base as “geo reference oriented” which I think was a nice way of saying “geeks with GPS’s.” As I am guilty of the same sin, I wanted to see about putting some classic Wasatch tours on-line and see how it works.

The tour below (Pink Pine, an excellent quick outing, or safe first tour) is created in Trimble Outdoors and has all sorts of download options, including sending it to your GPS enabled phone. Since I don’t have one, I’d be interested in seeing how it works if anyone actually tries this.

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The potential for this sort of mapping is vast as it has embedded photos, gps way points, a variety of terrain overlays (satellite, topo, hybrid, map) and it can be downloaded to devices like your phone, computer or GPS.

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Scotties Bowl – Topo

Pink Pine Ski Tour – Topo & Guide